Inherent Risk: How Insecure Systems Pose a Threat to Network Security

A few months ago, Anubis BitSight Labs researchers discovered that millions of low-cost Android phones, many of them in the United States, were vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The backdoor could be exploited through unregistered internet domains that had been hardwired into the Ragentek firmware used in these devices. A hacker with control of the domains could have installed malware bypassing Android’s security protections.

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